That is the generation that grew up smoking dope and then when they grew up and took power waged a “drug war” against the citizens of our own country.
That is the generation that was supposed to end all wars and instead has us embroiled in and endless cycle of profiteer war mongering in the middle East.
That was the generation preaching free love and equality while oppressing the Hell out of any person not a white man.
That generation certainly DID identify all these problems facing the world today, exploding in our faces currently... they identified these evils 50-60 years ago when they were young and did NOTHING to fix ANY OF THEM! You give them credit for identifying these issues... I will use a quote my buddy who is a big time engineer at Exxon uses when his employees come to him to report problems. “Hey that was a great job identifying the problem there buddy, Now how about come back with a SOLUTION. That is what I hired you for.” Identifying problems means nothing if you do nothing to fix them and the generation you mentioned obviously has not done enough to address those problems.
People gripe about young people today? They identified these issues and are literally marching in the streets to try to fix them as the generation you referred to has FAILED. The generation who grew up hippies left the fields of Woodstock, put out the joint roaches and fell right in line with corporate America. They forgot all about free love and rode their privilege to a comfy retirement. They forgot about legalizing weed and started drug wars that decimated minority communities and cost the American tax payers TRILLIONS to prosecute non violent offenders who just wanted to do the same things they did at Woodstock. Their generation ramped up environmental movements and simultaneously relied on the worst polluting sources of energy available.. I can go on and on about the WEAKNESS AND NEGLIGENCE of that generation but currently we are a nation on the edge of collapse because of THEM. That is my parent’s generation and they are so full of themselves of all their accomplishments meanwhile they never won a war (Vietnam was a big L and the Middle East wars are still raging), they ruined our economy and drove the country so far into debt we will never recover (tripled unemployment, wrecked GDC.. I can go on but the real scary numbers won’t be out for a few more months), pushed our environment to the brink of collapse and... Well I am sure you all get the point. This BTW is not my opinion. This is My MOM’s opinion. She is part of that generation. The Baby Boomers were supposed to be our greatest generation. They failed us, as did/ IS the generation just prior to them- My generation, born in the late 70s, early 80s. We are taking things over now and look to be making all the same mistakes over again and worse?.. If ya’ll really cannot see that this younger generation has the knowledge, empathy and passion to be better than us then you must truly believe this world is doomed because the Boomers running things now are the worst mess of hypocrites, liars, pedophiles and criminals we have ever had running this country and we may not make it to see what this young generation can do because of the mistakes of their parents and grand parents.
America is a MESS today, and it is not the fault of the kids. Some of us need to look in the damn mirror.